# Once Upon a Time in Shanghai - Hardcover

by **Mark Parascandola** (Photographer), **Michael Berry** (Contribution by)

China, poised to become the world's largest film market, is home to an expansive state-supported movie and television industry. On an unparalleled scale, entire towns have been built around making movies. Given film censorship codes in China, period films provide a safe and familiar format to tell stories based around "official" narratives. The movie sets, rivaling real-world cities and monuments in their scale, have themselves become destinations for domestic and international tourists. Despite the fiction, they bear witness to a dynamic and changing China. Photographer Mark Parascandola, has spent five years photographing movie production sites and outdoor sets across China.

**Number of Pages:** 148

**Dimensions:** 0.7 x 10.2 x 12.2 IN

**Publication Date:** November 19, 2019

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